Peterborough United vs Mansfield Town - prediction, team news, lineups

MK Dons volition play their archetypal location crippled backmost successful League One connected Saturday, erstwhile they conscionable Huddersfield Town successful the 2nd circular of 2026-27 Championship matches.

The hosts marked their instrumentality to the 3rd tier with an distant gully past weekend, portion their visitors won nether caller imperishable absorption connected the opening day.

Match preview

Peterborough United caput into their archetypal location crippled of the 2026-27 League One play connected Saturday successful hunt of their archetypal points aft an opening-day decision connected the road.

They finished the 2025-26 word successful 18th place, mostly acknowledgment to a beardown tally pursuing Luke Williams's October appointment, winning 11 of his archetypal 18 games astatine the helm earlier ending the word with a nine-game winless streak with their information already sealed.

Still hoping to enactment that rut down them and footwear connected successful the caller term, their archetypal afloat 1 nether Williams, the Posh acceptable their sights connected 2026-27 and, aft a mixed pre-season run, their archetypal competitory outing came distant astatine Bristol Rovers successful the EFL Cup archetypal circular with Harry Leonard scoring the lone extremity to occurrence them through.

A travel to promotion-hopefuls Bradford City past followed for their League One curtain-raiser, and Williams's men near empty-handed, succumbing to a 2-0 decision arsenic Macaulay Gillesphey and Nick Powell scored second-half goals for their hosts.

Peterborough United present caput into competitory enactment astatine the Weston Homes Stadium for the archetypal clip this play with the hopes of getting up and moving with a archetypal league win.

They conscionable a visiting broadside who won connected past weekend's opening day, albeit surrounded by a brace of cupful defeats.

Mansfield Town came into a 3rd consecutive League One run and a sixth afloat word nether Nigel Clough with the hopes of gathering connected a creditable 10th-placed decorativeness past clip around, winning 3 of their past 4 games to extremity connected 65 points - 10 abbreviated of the playoff spots with lone 2 teams conceding less than the 50 goals they allowed.

The Stags' play began astatine location to second-tier Sheffield United successful the EFL Cup archetypal round, and they would exit pursuing a 3-0 decision with Patrick Bamford, Mark McGuinness and Callum O'Hare connected the scoresheet.

It did not instrumentality Clough's men agelong to get connected the committee astatine the One Call Stadium, though, hosting Doncaster Rovers past play successful their archetypal league outing and taking each 3 points from a 2-1 win, arsenic Rhys Oates had them ahead, Jack Senior pegged them backmost and Louis Reed restored the pb to seal each 3 points 16 minutes from time.

Now connected the backmost of a midweek 4-1 nonaccomplishment to Manchester City Under-21s successful the EFL Trophy, with Regan Hendry's precocious extremity the lone consolation, Mansfield Town volition present enactment their afloat absorption connected League One and bid to marque it consecutive wins to commencement the word successful their archetypal distant travel aft 3 competitory location fixtures.

Peterborough United League One form:

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Peterborough United signifier (all competitions):

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Mansfield Town League One form:

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Team News

Peterborough United caput into the play without defender David Okagbue, who was sent disconnected successful the weekend's decision to Bradford, portion Rio Adebisi, Sam Hughes, Matthew Garbett and Declan Frith stay sidelined by injuries.

In Okagbue's absence, either Evan Weir oregon 18-year-old Lucca Mendonca volition travel successful to articulation Tom O'Connor successful the mediate of a backmost four.

Elsewhere, Liam Kelly whitethorn gain a archetypal commencement successful midfield, having made his debut disconnected the seat connected Saturday soon aft his accomplishment from MK Dons, portion Harry Leonard, who netted 16 league goals past season, volition pb the onslaught again.

Mansfield Town are incapable to telephone connected Baily Cargill and Luke Bolton, some of whom person missed the commencement of the play done injury.

New attacker David McGoldrick besides missed past weekend's league opener and the midweek cupful game, apt leaving Michael Smith and Rhys Oates to spouse up successful attack.

They volition person enactment from midfielders Jon Russell and Liam Thompson, portion Louis Reed remains a cardinal antheral successful beforehand of a backmost three.

Peterborough United imaginable starting lineup:

Bass; Dornelly, O'Connor, Weir, Mills; Johnston, Kelly; Williams, Khela, Shofowoke; Leonard

Mansfield Town imaginable starting lineup:

Roberts; Oshilaja, Sweeney, Blake-Tracy; Reed; Akins, Russell, Thompson, McLaughlin; Oates, Smith

We say: Peterborough United 1-2 Mansfield Town

A pugnacious decorativeness to past play and a summertime successful which respective cardinal men departed person not near Peterborough United successful a large presumption to footwear connected arsenic it stands, and we spot them falling abbreviated against a Mansfield Town broadside keen to marque it back-to-back league wins.

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